[eas_cs_seminars] 5th December 2017

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

This is just a reminder of tomorrow's seminar titled "Open Data Islands and
Communities" by Prof. Alan Dix (http://alandix.com/academic/), in MB373
from 2pm to 3pm.

Best,
Luca

On 2 December 2017 at 09:55, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Next Tuesday (05/12) Prof. Alan Dix (http://alandix.com/academic/)
> will give a talk titled "Open Data Islands and Communities" in MB373
> from 2pm to 3pm. For more details on the talk, see below.
>
> Best,
> Luca
>
> Abstract:
> How do we make digital technology serve those at physical and social
> margins of society? Digital technology, not least the internet, has
> transformed many aspects of our lives. Crucially, in many countries
> access to digital technology has become an essential part of the
> nature of modern citizenry for commercial services; for access to
> access to government, and for participation in democratic processes,
> for example much of the UK Brexit and US Presidential campaigns were
> fought on Facebook. However, the ability take advantage of digital
> technology is not uniform, those at the margins typically have
> disproportionately poor access, both in terms of physical connectivity
> and skills. There is a danger that digital technology can deepen the
> existing divides in our world. In this talk I will look at these
> issues and most importantly ways we can, as researchers and
> practitioners, seek to create technologies that serve all communities.
> I will focus particularly on open data, how we can devise ways to make
> it more easily found, accessed, and visualised by small communities at
> the edges, and moreover how they can become active creators of
> information: producers not merely subjects of data. I will draw on
> experience in a number of projects on the small Scottish island of
> Tiree and also my 1000 mile walk around the edges of Wales.
>
> Bio:
> Alan Dix is a part-time Professor in the HCI Centre at the University
> of Birmingham and part-time independent consultant, researcher and
> educator.  He has worked in human–computer interaction research since
> the mid 1980s, and is the author of one of the major international
> textbooks on HCI as well as of over 450 research publications covering
> topics from formal methods to creativity including some of the
> earliest papers in HCI on topics including privacy and mobile
> interaction. In 2013 he produced an HCI MOOC that is now hosted at
> InteractionDesign.org and in the same year he walked 1000 miles round
> the coast of Wales. The data from the latter is available in the
> public domain as an ‘open science’ resource. Many recent projects have
> a data theme including an analysis of the UK REF public domain data
> and working with musicologists on re-imagining digital archives for
> the humanities. He organises a twice yearly workshop, Tiree Tech Wave,
> on the small Scottish island where he lives, and where he has been
> engaged in a number of projects relating to heritage , communications,
> energy use and open data.
>



-- 
Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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